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HEAVENLY SPHERES 



MARY WASHINGTON 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 

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PREFACE. 






In giving this third message from the Washington family to the world, it 
may be proper to add a few lines. 

Early in August, 1876, while calling upon Mrs. M. J. Upham Hendee, of 
San Francisco, a lady, who for twenty years has toiled as an instrument of 
the angel-world, Washington controlled, and in substance said, that his 
mother, Mary, was anxious to give a message to the children of earth. Con- 
senting to assist the spirit-world by sitting for this message, Mrs. Hendee, 
in my presence, in twenty-one sittings, in a semi-unconscious condition, 
wrote the contents of this little volume, impressed by the spirit of Mary 
Washington, word by word. 

This, with that of her son's, and Martha Washington's already given to 
the world, open to us the gates of heaven, so that at least we can behold 
the realties of a tangible, spiritual world. A world of which poets have sung, 
priests have talked; about which kings, and queens, and popes have com- 
pelled their subjects to war; even "God hath written a book" of over three 
millions, five hundred thousand letters, and yet, never wrote one line of 
where was heaven, or where was hell. He also "hath sent His Son to die 
for man," but who in thirty years told us not where those "mansions" were, 
save as the Indian speaks of "happy hunting grounds." And in all the 
millions of years since "the morning stars sang together," from Gods, an- 
gels or men, not a score of -years have passed, since man could give a rea- 
son why he should live again. 

But now, by the teachings of those once dwellers on earth, men, women 
and children like ourselves, we have learned the" location of the spirit- world, 
its geography — learned of its houses, societies, occupations of the inhabi- 
tants-— learned of the spiritual body, its means of existence, manner of 
conversation, travel and communication with earth and other planets — 
learned of the manner of separation of soul and body — how the spirit is 
received and cared for — but the most important of all that we have learned 
is, that the conceptions of God were perfect, and that in the fullness of 
time, as a matter of necessity to His own perfection, all of His creations 
must come into a condition of comparative perfection and happiness, in har- 
mony with eternal law. 

San Fkancisco, Cal., February, 1879. T. B. CLAKKE. 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879, 
By Thomas Bkownell Clarke, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



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SECTION FIRST. 



My dear earthly friends, gu^kded by the love that is 
due to humanity, I come in accordance with a promise 
from my beloved son a few years ago, that I would give 
my testimony to this glorious truth of life beyond the 
grave in a continued knowledge and progress by intelligent 
and individual souls who have changed the sphere of life 
physical for one spiritual and eternal. The great advent 
of spiritual light and knowledge to the world of mortals 
will bring a joyful awakening to a sleeping world. Un- 
certainty is death to all the finer and nobler intuitions of 
the soul; consequently on becoming fully convinced as to 
the truth of our reality and power to come to you as living 
identities, will establish a different code of laws by which 
mankind will be governed. There will be a fail recogni- 
tion of a power above to restrain from evil. As spiritual- 
ism is imperfectly understood, to-day — it is supposed by 
many that there is nothing to fear in the future, as all are 
supposed to be saved; but 1 would say to all that they 
will reap just such an harvest as they prepare the ground 
and seed for. Christ's teachings were very perfect as we 
see them to-day — "that they who sow by the wayside will 
reap thistles and tares" — but well-doing and an earnest de- 
sire for right will bring its own reward. The glorious 
truths which await the coming generations of earth from 
the now invisible world will become plainer, and a full 
comprehension of knowledge in regard to life and its prin- 
ciples will be attained. Facts are really becoming es- 
tablished between the two worlds, as the advancement of 
knowledge gives them power to test this great question 
which has so long hindered the world as to the literal 
meaning of God, the Devil, Heaven and Hell, and the 
uncertainty with which the world is held in regard to their 
future existence. 

The network which has been woven by the superstitious 
and designing upon ignorant and down-trodden humanity, 
formed a barrier that at one time was perfectly impreg- 



nable to the spiritual influences of higher spheres. Many 
attempts have been made to awaken mortals to the truth 
of spirit-life and its glorious surroundings, but every ap- 
proach of the spirit to earth to meet its loved ones only 
doomed them to a greater dread, as all approach of spirits 
were considered harbingers of woe or death to some of 
their friends. Thus was every avenue cut off by and 
through which a communication could be made to destroy 
the dread and fear of a spiritual intercourse, that could 
be fully received as coming from those they supposed 
dead, uncertainty of their future, whether in Hell suffer- 
ing the torments of the damned or in Heaven with the 
blest, and so remote as never to return to earth; thus cut- 
ting off all communication with every loved being who 
had preceded them, and confining all worship to the God- 
head through the Son, Jesus Christ. 

But the united effort of spirits to break through and 
awaken thought touched a chord of response at a time 
and through a channel that could not be mistaken, and 
gained a hold that could not be severed. 

By degrees nearly every phase has been tested, until 
the forces are nearly complete. Minds have been aroused 
who are scientific both in this world and in the spheres, 
and it will not be long before a perfect knowledge of our 
spirit realm and its beautiful surroundings will be so well 
understood, that doubts will no longer fill the minds of 
men as to the certainty or uncertainty of our spiritual 
abode, as a real and beautiful home, where the ascended 
spirit is received and cared for by the loved ones who 
have preceded. 

Our spiritual home has its spheres or belts which sur- 
round and separate each from the other, or it may be 
called chemical atmosphere, causing a separation from 
earth and from each sphere, yet being connected by elec- 
tric and magnetic forces. To explain, we are, as you 
have been told by other spirits, in separate spheres, with 
spaces intersecting each other — every space supplied with 
matter to sustain elements necessary for the requirement 
of such circle or sphere. Those who are within a certain 
sphere are surrounded by a belt, holding them absolutely 
aloof from others — none passing, only through permission 
or aid of guides who deem them sufficiently harmonized 
to adapt themselves to the laws of that sphere. 

I do not wish to convey the idea that they are all of one 
mind or talent — for they are as varied in organization, 
talent or aspirations as the flowers of the field — but they 
are all on the plane of spirituality as one, or a band or 
class. As they become prepared to enter another sphere, 
they are ushered into the next' higher with great rejoicing, 



where they are received and accorded their position, pre- 
paratory to a still higher unfoldment. In our return to 
the earth-plane, we gather, little by little, sweet thoughts 
and blessings, with which we surround ourselves, and 
make our presence understood and felt, for it is a pleasure 
to us, I assure you, to know that we have been fully 
recognized. We love earth as a mother, and cannot break 
the link that binds us to her, and as we are brought into 
her atmosphere, let us not dread the recognition by un- 
pleasant associations of our former life, for here is where 
so much misunderstanding arises, by the variety of des- 
cription given. Those who have been led to dark and 
wicked lives, while here, dread to return for fear of the 
conditions that once surrounded them. If mortals could 
only see their true condition, they would not stumble so 
often; but the work of redemption must go on, and the angel 
world has to come to the rescue to bring mortals up to a 
higher knowledge of their true lives and duties upon 
earth. This world is where mankind must commence the 
studies of self, both physically and spiritually; the grand 
chain is unbroken, but do not let it rust on the earth 
plane, so that it cannot revolve and elevate you in its 
scale of change in your nobler and higher duties and des- 
tinies. They truly seem as one linked in each other, that 
at times, the spirit only feels itself to be mortal, and not 
until it attempts to control its organism in moving material 
bodies, does it realize the fact of the change. All things 
are changing rapidly, and the wonderful knowledge gained 
within the last century, has startled the world with its new 
and wonderful revelation of truths and recognition of our 
departed friends, through the different phases given by 
the different media. My position or sphere of action is a 
teacher or mother to those who have faltered and grown 
weary through long life toils and bewildering teachings 
regarding this beautiful world. 

I find much joy in being enabled to assist those who 
seem lost, by strengthening and encouraging them. After 
coming to this home, I could not understand the meaning 
of Death; I was dead and yet alive, and though absent, 
still present with my loved ones on earth, but could not 
make myself known to them. I struggled fearfully to 
gather sufficient strength to speak audibly, but could not. 
Though comprehending all things, yet was I powerless to 
make myself known. -At that time I knew nothing of 
spirits' return to earth, and could not fully realize my con- 
dition. I thought of all my religious teachings. Where 
was God and Jesus? Would they forsake me? Was I 
really dead, or was it all a frightened dream? Until sud- 
denly I became aroused to a knowledge that I was not 



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alone, and that others were with me. I saw that they were 
those who had passed from earth while I yet lived, and I 
realized that I was changed but not dead. What a revul- 
sion of feeling came over me; was it really true that I 
should continue this knowledge and individuality of my- 
self, and were all my earthly teachings errors that misled, 
causing a fear, a dread, an uncertainty of this life, which 
seemed nothing like what had been taught me; that the 
wicked were lost and an eternal torture, awaited them 
without redemption? A bewildering sense of joy over- 
powered me, for I felt a gradual light dawning upon my 
bewildered senses; I realized that I was surrounded by 
those who had been long in the spirit realm, and who, I felt, 
could give me a truthful knowledge of my present sur- 
rounding. 

As I gathered strength to comprehend my condition, I 
asked for the truth, when they gave me their own experi- 
ence of being ushered into spirit-life. As a babe is born 
into earth with all its weaknesses, so we, until clothed 
upon with spiritual garments, are sustained by the spirit 
band who awaits our coming, and attend us until suffi- 
ciently strengthened to assure our own control. 

Many times spirits are brought to earth to gather forces 
sufficient to strengthen the spiritual body, to retain its 
magnetic chord, which will ever sustain and keep it enrap- 
port with earthly friends and earthly conditions. 

In following my guide, I often times stopped to wonder 
at the strange and beautiful scenes until, I would clasp 
my hands with joy and thank God for all these blessings, 
and to me glorious revelations so different from what my 
soul had pictured of heaven. 

This was no walled city, no remote place, but gorgeous 
w T ith beautiful scenes, so like earth in her happiest moods 
and most lovely places. 

The eye could never tire, or the soul faint, yet wonder 
and astonishment would hold me in their embrace at the 
strangeness and beauty, yet w r onderful adaptation to the 
wants of spirit-life so singularly near to our earthly desires. 

How like my earthly home I would say, as some strangely 
familiar scene would meet my gaze. My guide, tarrying 
as we went, told me that all the scenery and conditions on 
this plane, were nearly allied to earth, as it was more con- 
genial, and better adapted to the requirements of a spirit 
who had recently left earth — for the change must be gradual 
to retain the strength, and hold the identity of our indi- 
vidualized condition. 

When a full comprehension of the surroundings had 
been given, and the duties understood, I was told that I 
should pass through another sphere, and so on to others 



yet beyond; all controled by one universal power of love 
and wisdom. 

The scenery was beautifully diversified by mountains, 
valleys, oceans, lakes and rivers, with a heavenly atmos- 
phere — an arch of blue with fleecy clouds, moving in 
majesty, giving lights and shades to the gorgeous scenery, 
that it filled my soul with joy and wonder. I thought: Oh ! 
that this beautiful home should not be known in its reality 
to mortals who remain upon the earth, uncertain of their 
heavenly home. I said, if it be possible, mortals shall 
know of it, and the joys that await them, that they may no 
longer be doomed to sadness and despair at the uncertaintj^ 
of the after-life. 

Many who come, are not rejoiced at first, for they pass 
to a plane, which their own unhappy earth-lives have fitted 
for them, and it is a long time before they can be raised 
to higher and happier conditions. All are assisted by 
those of their friends on a higher plane; thus none are 
lost, but only retarded in their spiritual growth. 

My experience does not differ, I find, materially from 
many others who have given their testimony to the world. 
The law governing the material world holds good in the 
spiritual. Order is God's first law, and the more har- 
monious the conditions, the better and higher will be the 
unfoldment of all truths, whether of earth or Heaven. 

Since my advent to my bright spiritual home, I have not 
been idle, for one who sees the beautiful transfiguration 
of souls, from physical conditions, and the varied change 
through which they are ushered into the different spheres, 
according to their adaptation, needs to be active and ear- 
nest, to assist the unfledged spirit in its first reception to 
the new home. No infant needs more a mother's care 
than the spirit on its first entrance here. This being com- 
prehended by the spirit band, the guarding spirit awaits, 
receives and embalms it in its magnetic embrace, until re- 
stored to strength and consciousness, sufficient to under- 
stand its own condition. The question is often asked, Why 
do so many spirits hang around earth, and mar the happi- 
ness of mortals? I answer, that they lived solely for earth, 
and destroyed all aspirations for good, ignoring everything 
outside of physical necessities, at the expense of every 
sympathy, regarding nothing but sensual passions, there- 
by severing the tie of spirituality that would elevate them 
to higher conditions. On changing worlds they are drawn 
by their desires to such gratifications as they most en- 
joyed in earth-life, thereby holding them around their for- 
mer haunts and associates, who are on the same plane of 
desires with themselves ; often controlling some unhappy 
mortal with tastes and passions like themselves, until they 
are gratified at the expense of the unfortunate being. 



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Could mortals see their true condition, they would strive 
to overcome the lower passions, and cultivate a spiritual 
elevation to do good, and cultivate the higher and holiest 
principles of life — that when the change comes there will 
not be such powers to drag them like leaden weights 
down to earth. 

The unfoldment of a new principle is beginning to as- 
sert itself upon the minds of the people producing a new 
and holy influence on all things earthly, making them be- 
lieve that all things are sustained, and developed for higher 
good. Vision is very imperfect in regard to the rights of 
the world ; every one has some new phase upon which 
they wish to base their standard of right. All see through 
different lenses, thereby destroying the harmony — but it 
is only truth struggling through the haze of darkness, like 
the sun through clouds. We know there is a sun, a beauti- 
ful, bright, warm sun, which will break forth and dispel 
all the clouds that obscures its brightness. 

So it is with truth. There is a glorious truth of divine 
life, which will come forth in all its freshness and glory, 
to warm and enliven those sad, gloomy hearts, which have 
so long been obscured by doubts and fears. 

Every step that is taken to awaken mortals to a know- 
ledge of their true condition of this life, and towards har- 
monizing with the spheres, will tend to dispel the darkness, 
and bring to light the glories of the celestial spheres which 
are so closely allied, that the blending will add a beauti- 
ful lustre to the grave and solemn tread of past mythology, 
and bring gladness and love to sorrowing souls. 

Beautiful lessons are taught in nature's revelations, as 
the eye takes in the lofty mountains and the grand scenery 
of earth — but the eye of the soul, perceiving a beautiful 
world beyond, filled with living, teeming life and happy 
associations, is filled with joy indescribable. 

How beautiful is the soul teaching, for it brings us 
nearer to eternal things, which have been kept so far from 
us in the false teachings of dark theology. 

The spiritual awakening and unfoldment of our inner 
soul has opened a true condition of life. § It is the open 
sesame of interior life that lifts the soul of men out of 
darkness into marvelous light, illuminating the darkened 
chambers whose hidden mysteries have been buried from 
the world through fear and superstitious dread of an of- 
fended Deity. 

Every particle of matter gives a record of the past and 
comes back through its soul attraction, giving a true pic- 
ture of itself — thus we read the great book of nature as a 
living page whose every leaf is destined to give a portion 
of the whole. Therefore nothing is lost, each particle 



having a place in the great law of Nature. The hidden 
things, the springs of life, are not understood by chemist 
or naturalist — but as the spirit of matter is being devel- 
oped and understood, it will bring forth the problem of 
life. 

I find that to comprehend our spiritual home aright 
and. to enjoy its blessings we must first understand our 
earthly home and its laws in the spiritual as well as the 
material sense, therefore I have somewhat wandered in 
my subject. But when I come en rapport with earth by 
controlling a form or brain, I become embalmed with its 
life and principles, thereby taking on the conditions of 
earth so as to realize its sensuous condition. 

At such times life physical seems to return pleasantly, 
similar to mortals being embalmed with the spiritual, 
which uplifts and gives them those beautiful sensations of 
heavenly visions. 

We would say to our dear earthly friends to call around 
them as much as possible the good and true in spirit-life 
as well as in earth -life — yet scorn not the downtrodden, 
but by kindness uplift and encourage them as you wish to 
be cared for by higher powers. We are all children of 
one great principle, or Father and Mother — from spirit 
and matter, positive and negative forces are the creators 
of our existenpe. 



SECTION SECOND. 

During the great advent of spiritual light, as it broke 
upon the unthinking world, we united as a band to de- 
scend to earth for the purpose of becoming acquainted 
with the elements or conditions thereof and conceived the 
idea of introducing a new language by and through which 
we could communicate with mortals. We were deeply in- 
terested in the telegraphic phases that were being brought 
to earth as a means of communication between various lo- 
calities, and becoming interested in assisting in that, we 
tried to form a connecting link between heaven and earth. 

Beautiful bands of angels were gathered holding con- 
tinued investigations in -regard to such conditions as could 
be brought to bear upon sounds. 

At last, the time arrived, and conditions were found 
which gave joy unspeakable to know that we had succeed- 
ed in making the tiny sounds that were caused by concus- 
sion of an electric power. Those children clothed by the 
magnetic belt, in their simplicity, supposed them to be 
simply queer sounds, but which have proved a voice from 



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the angel hosts. Such then is the cause of the awakening 
and soul stirring power of this new means of communion, 
that to the world may give forth truth, that all shall know 
and be known as of old, and prove that whatever has been 
still retains the same power. Yes, I can say, that the 
angel world has touched a chord that will never be 
broken, but verberate and reverberate throughout the ages 
that are to come, giving joy and strength to millions of 
souls yet unborn. All knowledge has not been accorded 
to the minds of mortals, but like the star in the east, only 
leads the way to where the young child lies. 

The shepherds who walk faithfully will be guided to a 
Saviour of knowledge. These great spiritual truths come 
not wdth loud soundinir timbrels, but in the sweet whisper- 
ings of soul-stirring thought. 

The two worlds are blending. Geological research 
proves the age of the world to be millions of years; the 
grand wonderful changes having wrought a glorious pic- 
ture of knowledge and architecture of the times in which 
they lived, proving beyond all doubt, the evidence of their 
existence upon the earth, long before historic knowledge 
was given. The grand old earth is a book which has been 
indellibly written by the hand of time, from age to age, 
so plainly that all who can comprehend the laws of nature 
can read and define the different stages through which she 
has passed in coming to the present time. And the inhab- 
itants, what of them ; have they been idle? No; they 
have also been passing through a change, preparatory to 
giving their testimony from the spirit-realms, in harmony 
with the testimony of mother earth, and there will be no 
conflict, for the testimony will harmonize and blend, until 
we find that a unit will be found between this world's 
knowledge and the spirit, giving a full comprehension of 
laws that have not been understood — for nothing is lost — 
everything leaves a record of itself, imprinted so deeply as 
not to be defaced. How beautiful the psychometrist reads 
the soul of things — the material only being the cup to hold 
the spirit— but the spirit of matter, so blending with the 
spirit of mortal, that it leads it to its own, giving it power 
and life properties. 

Since the minds of mortals have awaked from their 
dreaded fear of an angry God or a burning hell, and have 
recognized their individuality as responsible beings, to 
think and act for themselves — it has developed a wonder- 
ful knowledge in the discoveries of earth — its formation 
and growth through the changes that are constantly going 
on. 

The terrible darkness which has obscured the world 
since the Christian era, by crushing the freedom of soul— 



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expression — tb ought and investigation has buried in obli- 
vion most of the wonderful past in its great record. 

But a change has come, and with it a marvelous truth, 
that the world has been passing through a terrible dream 
or nightmare, whicli for a while, held it in its powerful 
grasp; but the spell is broken and can never return. The 
awakened world is rubbing its eyes in wonder and joy, at 
its deliverance from so terrible a fate, and gathering the frag- 
ments finds that a beautiful structure with a perfect form 
is shown, all parts fitting in harmony and order, and that 
not one fragment is lost. It has been a dark record that 
has torn man from his Maker, as though he was not a part 
of this grand whole, and that the power that created a uni- 
verse should fail in perfecting man. 

The whole structure of the christian religion, as con- 
ceived by man and enforced upon the world, shows plainly 
man's device, and not God's infinite wisdom. 

The evolution of joy or sorrow, good and evil, light and 
darkness, gave to their undeveloped minds an unseen 
power or being of good or evil, as ruling in different 
spheres or localities, and to their untaught minds caused 
fear through terror of a devil, and love only through fear 
of God. Their love for God not being a natural love for 
his goodness, but only a love of forced obedience against 
their own innate nature. Now, a true love to the infinite, 
should be a spontaneous reliance upon his love and wis- 
dom. I find not arbitrary law compelling our acts here, 
but attraction for all things are in harmony and consequent 
repulsion from those things, which are not in accordance 
with our highest good. The law of worlds regulates the 
law of beings. I sometimes see an overpowering weight 
of earthly matter or certain proportions of matter, which 
outweigh the rest, or overbalance them by which the mor- 
tal is drawn so forcibly to certain conditions, that it seems 
to overpower him. Matter forms a magnet so strong that 
the will often becomes weak, and yields to the polarity of 
the magnet, but the spirit may in itself be pure from those 
conditions. As soon as the true knowledge of. life in its 
grandest conception shall be made known to men, then will 
the lion and lamb of negative and positive forces balance 
each other in a harmonious law. 

I find myself digressing in the fathomless chain of in- 
finite wisdom ; for our spiritual vision is also limited and 
can only reach to certain bounds : but a comprehension of 
greater latitude will be given us in the coming time, when 
all minds can be drawn by the great influx of spiritual 
light. 

In coming back to earth, we bring soul-seeds to be em- 
balmed with earth magnetism, that they may carry a re- 



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turn of soul-element to a realm where all things are 
conceived and formed before coming to earth. Our life is 
only a link to this wonderful chain, where new and beau- 
tiful forces of brilliant spiritual conditions are uniting us 
to this earth world. 

I will now show you through the grand sphere of our 
spiritual realm, to prove that we are real workers in this 
glorious kingdom of knowledge. 

The principle elements of all spheres — for all spheres or 
planets have the same fundamental principle — but the age 
in which they were evolved through the changes which 
some have passed, has brought them to higher perfection', 
and the inhabitants are consequently perfected to a higher 
spiritual altitude. 

So far distant indeed are those planets that hold the 
spirits of ages gone by, that we seldom get a response, 
but by degrees we are uniting all our forces by a compre- 
hension of our relation, through the magnetic and electric 
currents, until eventually we shall have a full understand- 
ing and response from their life history. 

Your geologists are searching earthly sands to obtain a 
knowledge of the former inhabitants through the soul of 
matter; so we are tracing up the elements of spiritual 
spheres to learn the true relationship of the same. Ben- 
jamin Franklin is again at work arranging his wonderful 
inspirational power to bring a connecting link with the 
different planets by the power of electric force. 

Now, friend, I must define myself by saying that we 
have an organized band who have been studying and in- 
vestigating this great problem for many years. Though 
they have passed from your earthly plane, yet are they 
conscious of all things transpiring in regard to scientific 
laws. They were highly mediumistic when on earth as 
well as scientific, and they have not broken the chain that 
bound them to this earthly home but have been held by 
the spiritual band in which they were encircled to carry 
on this great problem. We are connected with two bands, 
one portion for scientific investigation, another for spirit- 
ual communication and attraction to earth for the knowl- 
edge and advancement of mortals. 

I will give the names of some of our particular band to 
show you that we are working for mankind. They are 
such men as Wm. Penn, Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, 
Thomas Paine, with many other noble souls who earnestly 
fought to break the chains of slavery of mind and body. 

In scientific research we find Gallileo, Newton, Hum- 
boldt, Hervy, Bacon; as philosophers, Socrates, Aristotle, 
and on the spiritual plane such men as Chalmers, Chan- 
ning, Wesley, Starr King, Parker. 



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There are many others doing as good work in other 
ways and manner, just as societies work on your plane, 
each according to their own observation. God bless you 
all; patience is only needed, and if applied as well as un- 
derstood would bring us so near together that no mistakes 
would be made. We have formed our circle of spiritual 
thinkers and scientific 'men and philosophers of different 
ages, in order to bring a connecting link to the minds of 
all. It is arranged with a larger circle around a smaller, 
which surrounds the magnetic and electric centre from 
wdiich forces from all can be received and diffused as we 
are about to inform you of the home of the upper realms. 
Our method at first to control mortals was to awaken them 
by sounds which should prove method and continue un- 
til attention was attracted. When that was done, then we 
tried the power of impressing or controlling the organs of 
the body and speech, also of sight. Thus by degrees w r ere 
we found to be conveying ideas through the Avhole chan- 
nel of human organism. Being recognized, comprehend- 
ing our success and seeing that answers to our questions 
were fully responded to, what joys and hallelujahs went 
resounding through the spheres to know and realize that 
w r e w T ere not lost, but still a part from all humanity, and 
might still hold converse with our loved ones on the earth, 
who had mourned us as dead. 

What a restitution of soul thrills came reverberating, 
as every sphere' responded in one anthem of harmony to 
the joyful tidings, that a glorious link had bound us, and 
opened a channel of thought and investigation which has 
proved wonderful. Assuring the world that there is no 
death but a glorious life, filled with works which will re- 
sult in the anticipation of all force of mind — a silent power 
which will prove the grand charm of knowledge, cementing 
the link of communication between earth and heaven. 

I have felt so long the promise of this task of communi- 
cating to mortals, that I. had waited impatiently for the 
time to come, in which I should bear a part in this great 
work. My soul rejoices, that now the time has come, 
though through such strange events, and at a time and 
place so unexpected and incomprehensible; yet, that an 
opening has come, in which all efforts will be made to bring 
the battery to work for events that will transpire to awaken 
minds to the truths of spirit-power, and as such, that I am 
to be a worker in the field of this great reform. This was 
the time, and this the place, in which I should bring my 
testimony — for it was a moment which would strengthen 
and nerve me to the task, as those forces now gathered 
were necessary to break a channel through the density of 
superstition and darkness, that was overspreading our 



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country, and that those who had seen the light, might 
come and be important witnesses to this cause. Thus is 
one focus formed upon earth, and a force bears upon it 
from our spheres, which being recognized, we will con- 
tinue to come in good faith. Humboldt says he has taken 
a stand and will not rest until a full recognition of spirit- 
life is fully established. May God bless all the workers 
in this field of truth. Wesley's great soul was led by the 
angels, and felt it before leaving the earth, and says that 
spirit communion must be recognized upon earth. Ac- 
cording to a law of God, the infinite power is manifesting 
through matter at all times. All who have been on the 
earth-plane are still here, working and investigating ; for 
the life never ends, neither is it a finality, but universal 
growth, throwing off what it has outgrown, and taking on 
new. "Wonderful are Thy works, oh God, and glorious Thy 
revelations." 



SECTION THIKD. 

Dear friends, let me now take you in to our chemical 
laboratory, where are prepared chemical properties, by 
which impressions are given to the world. 

It is a large dome or tower — no squares* but round, and 
an immense room, where the sides are filled with what 
to you would look like brass pipes running up the sides, 
but which are of a preparation of a glass-like substance so 
impenetrable as to hold all within itself. These pipes run 
down through the .floor into another room, where large 
vats or tubs are set in substance like your earth, with con- 
necting pipes running a long distance under the earth-like 
substance, where are large vaults containing fluids, where- 
with the chemical preparation is made through filtration, 
and carried through those tubes -out on to a plane of glass- 
like substance, where it is retained to be gathered in so- 
lution or dry powders for use. In the centre of the first 
dome or room are thousands of tables or boxes, where 
small tubes are running, charging them, and as they are 
all numbered we can find the proper chemical condition. 

We are thus preparing the atoms of our atmosphere to 
be used in producing a power to connect the two worlds, 
that we may thereby come en rapport with mortals in 
knowledge : and truly we find the same chemical affinities 
here that you do in earth-life, and consequently have to 
analyze the properties of matter. Were we not to under- 
stand the nature and the true relation of our spirit atmos- 
phere as compared with yours, we should not be able to 



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govern the relations existing between us, and our tests 
would only be accidental; but as nothing is accidental, w r e 
must then try to comprehend the law governing the two 
worlds, so as to form a link that will respond in harmony, 
and at will give such communications as we direct. There- 
fore, on discovering that we were truly recognized by the 
efforts that had been made, gave us courage to believe that 
further effort would be fully rewarded by a clear and un- 
mistakable knowledge of our condition, and home being 
given to the children of earth. Thus we have formed so- 
cieties for the investigation of this glorious truth, and to 
prove to you, that spirit not clothed in mortality, yet re- 
tains knowledge and embodiment, wdth power to investi- 
gate, control and advance in growth of knowledge and 
wisdom, both in sphere life, as well as on the plane of earth. 

When once we gain perfect knowledge of the true con- 
dition, then will mortals become changed, and comprehend 
the law by and through which we act to control and im- 
press them. 

There are no societies on earth seeking knowledge which 
are not originated in spirit-life, for every element has its 
outgrowth here. Although we are first to conceive, yet, 
many carry out the plan upon your plane, so as to 
gather forces from the elements of earth for material to 
wqrk with. Your earth has elements w\hich have never 
been brought to the surface, but which are only waiting 
for the time to come when all matter will be fully weighed 
and investigated. For instance, there are obscure portions 
of your earth, like Africa's interior, discovered by your 
Livingston, which yet gives only a ray of light to enlight- 
ened and cultivated portions of earth, which will in years 
to come, give a great force. At present, there is work 
enough for all, in harmonizing the spiritual element for 
enlightened nations, which, as you see, are becoming 
blended by their spiritual attractions. The spirits moved 
at the same time in different portions of your world, show- 
ing that it was a universal, tribute % from the spirit-land to 
the earth realm, and at a time when all seemed to need 
its knowledge. 

The acknowledged response of intelligence from earth, 
that we had made a great discovery, one that would form 
a new channel, through which we could communicate with 
our earthly friends, and draw their attention to the great 
fact of our individual and real being, as living and hold- 
ing sympathy with earth, gave a thrill of joy which was 
heralded throughout the spirit realms. Do you wonder 
then, that on discovering channels through which we 
could come to earth, that every effort should be made to 
ascertain all facts concerning them? 



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Societies were formed and various ways planned to in- 
vestigate the best means to control. In doing so, we had 
to come to earth and apply the currents of air from our 
batteries formed in the spheres, to such as were attracted 
to us, or to those who were genial or negative to our at- 
mosphere, by applying and bringing them under our mag- 
netic influences, also attracting a sphere or circle of friends 
to unite in sympathy with the controlled, often being com- 
pelled to assist in magnetizing them. Thus we worked by 
will and magnetic currents upon different media until 
results followed, which gave to the world a truth of con- 
tinued life. 

We now are working to attract by attaching batteries 
found in our sphere with those formed on earth, and when 
once the true conditions are understood, that are required 
to connect the two poles between our worlds, with intelli- 
gent operators at each pole or battery, then will the great 
problem be solved which has so long been buried in dark- 
ness. Then will knowledge be received that the inhabitants 
of earth are guided and controlled by those in spirit-life, 
whose taste and sympathy blend. 

All the arts and sciences, inventions and discoveries 
have been directed by higher influences. Those who 
have solved the destinies of man, passed the change called 
death, and risen to a knowledge of spiritual conditions, 
discover the true condition and relations of matter and its 
uses. We are blending heaven and earth in various ways, 
and soon you will see that we can chemically change a be- 
ing of earth, by displacing particles of matter by spiritual 
process. Could you see your earthly bodies you would dis- 
cover a blending of particles of matter, held together by 
tissues, so thin and transparent that you would be startled 
at the frailty of the human body. With physical eyes, you 
behold it beautiful and substantial, answering all the pur- 
poses of earthly conditions; but pass it under spiritual 
test by chemical treatment, and it disappears, changed 
in all its conditions, but as suddenly returns to its former 
position, showing how little man knows of his physical 
being. 

Atoms are held together by a law of attraction, and 
repel those which are not in sympathy or adapted to 
themselves, whether mineral, vegetable or animal. The 
human body is in harmony with all, and a combination 
of all forces. Every day we are gaining more facts and 
greater insight into the means of intelligent communica- 
tion with earth. 

The power to move inanimate bodies is brought about 
by burying the chemical properties of magnetic influence 
from our sphere, and electric forces from earth, which, 



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united by the power of a battery, formed either consciously 
or unconsciously, we thus gather the power to attract or 
retard such things as come in contact with this power. 
We hold it in submission with those things that are moved, 
otherwise there would be destruction. 

We do not wish to frighten, but to convince the world 
of the truth of knowledge and power manifested by those 
who have once been friends upon your plane. We wish 
the world to understand that the angels, who have been 
so much talked of, are those who once inhabited earth as 
your beloved ones, and that they can come back, and do 
come and can comprehend the wants of humanity, and are 
working for its good and for the purpose of giving credit, 
where credit is due. 

In past time, God has had the whole praise for every- 
thing of an intelligent nature brought to earth, and our 
loved ones have been lost in all communication. It is 
true God is universal, an- embodiment of all things, and 
permeates all things; but as all are a part of that universal 
being, they are the individualities which are brought into 
a condition Or relation, whereby they can impart to those 
who are in sympathy with them, the truths and knowl- 
edge of the spirit spheres. Thus you see that everything 
works on a plane of reason and harmony. 

The world has become fully awakened to the knowledge 
of spirit communion and hereafter will work in sympathy 
with the workers in spirit-life. The two forces blending 
will develop a new era, a new world, where all will work 
together for good, understandingly and without fear of an 
eternal hell or a purchasable heaven. To be bought or 
sold is a servile condition to every one, whereby they are 
bound and held against the glorious freedom of the soul. 

Now will all within the world be made to rejoice in the 
knowledge of Eternal life, where all shall enjoy the free- 
dom of unfoldment, evolving in knowledge and power, 
framing new codes of laws to sustain, not restrain, the 
grand and glorious lights that shall come from summer- 
land. 

Every work of art is a reflex of spirit-life, and in all its 
perfectness stamps itself upon the coarser matters of 
earth. All the beautiful are angel tokens given to mortals 
to bring them in harmony with their angel home. Flow- 
ers are angelic teachers, that minister to our senses with 
beauty and fragrance, drawing us upward to higher un- 
foldment. 

There is a great change taking place in the last few 
years. Many distinguished and highly inspirational mor- 
tals have changed their garments and taken their upward 
flight to assist in the return of spirits to earth for a higher 



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unfoldment in the true knowledge of intercourse between 
the two worlds; bringing a more universal knowledge of 
spirit-life in its real and true condition, establishing a fact 
which has so hong puzzled the world with regard to our 
future destination and spiritual condition. 

A spirit has even been considered an illusion or delusion 
of the mind under peculiar conditions, and those who saw 
or felt a spirit were considered under strange hallucina- 
tion filled'with vagaries through fear, never giving credit 
to the spirit as a real identity or tangibility. But the veil 
has been removed — the two worlds have shaken hands, 
exchanged words of love and recognition through the por- 
tals of heaven and earth, opening a glorious channel 
through which communication can be intelligently carried 
on, to establish a new era of knowledge whereby mortals 
can know and comprehend by what laws and through what 
agency they are led and guided. 

No more will they feel the arbitrary heel of a tyrant 
crushing them without mercy, or that the world was an 
accident moved by chance, but that there is infinite wis- 
dom and adaptation, and that all things are moved in har- 
mony and order according to His will, that all changes 
are the order of unfoldment, throwing off attributes no 
longer needed and taking on new. Every day brings a 
new era of knowledge, of some important changes or con- 
dition, of things showing that what was once considered 
supernatural are only natural laws, and that when once 
understood seem perfectly clear to the mind. 

Thus by degrees will heaven and earth blend, until we 
shall walk, and talk and comprehend life in its true light. 
The spirits of mortals now often visit our summer-land 
home — visit many of its scenes, guided by loved ones on 
the spirit shore, many of them retaining a knowledge of 
the scenes through which they pass and often remember- 
ing the loved ones who escorted them, thus bringing to 
earth beautiful visions of the summer-land. Also spirits 
who have been disrobed of mortality, walk and talk with 
mortals, giving much knowledge to earth-life of our intel- 
ligence by telegraphic chords which respond to the touch 
of angels and mortals. 

No longer will the earth be clothed in sackcloth and 
ashes, but a renewed life will spring up to cherish with 
fond affection the loved ones who are waiting for them. 

In the chemical laboratory we are testing the properties 
of matter by chemical changes, and find that by a process 
of atmospheric action we can displace particles of matter 
and replace with spirit matter not seen by the natural eye 
which will hold • the spirit while we remove the physical, 
covering or body, giving it another body with features of 



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youth or age, thereby personating another being out of 
the garments of one, who now stands enshrouded in spirit- 
matter, and then replace the same to its original form and 
condition without losing a particle or injury to the being. 
It has been done many times; but it is not understsood by 
mortals how the spirit can be covered by a mortal's body. 

But as the scientists of your world are commencing to 
test these things in truly scientific manner, they will be 
amply repaid in the grand discoveries that will be made 
in chemical changes going on between heaven and earth. 

We see from our spirit-home that mortals are only bor- 
rowing from a fountain whose supply has not been drained, 
but that there is ever an abundance for the increasing de- 
mand as the influx is greater than the wants. We see a 
movement amongst those who do not comprehend the uni- 
versal knowledge and truth of life to destroy this beautiful 
structure of spiritual intelligence and prevent it being re- 
ceived upon earth, as it will overthrow their God as an 
individual or personal being and hence their power as a 
monopoly. But they will count without their host, as 
there has been too much power gained of the knowledge 
of spirit communion to fall back upon the creeds and dog- 
mas of past idolatry. 

A universal light will, spread throughout the world, and 
establish the knowledge of God in man, as the supremacy 
and intelligence of earth, surrounded by attending angels, 
who control according to the wants of the times. Arts 
and sciences unfold the true condition and relation of 
spheres and their uses. 

The struggle will be great, and every effort will be made 
to overcome this great influence; but it will only cement 
the link by stronger ties, as every soul which is guided 
by the angelic hosts, will open a way for all to see the 
wonderous power of heaven. 

God works by and through angel power, and they mini- 
ster to the wants of all, whether rich or poor, great or 
small. ' ' He has chosen the weak things of earth to confound 
the wise," and it will be found that He again assumes the 
power as of old, to commune with his own, the children 
of earth, and give them power to do His will. He gives the 
sun to shine on all alike, and has placed no barriers to 
their enjoyment of His beautiful creation. It is only man's 
device to debar man from free and equal participation in 
all things pertaining to life. This is the birth of a new 
saviour, and one which will redeem the world without a 
sacrifice of blood. We drop the bloody feast of the past, 
and turn to the spiritual food, which will nourish and im- 
part life in all its spiritual beauty. No more sacrifices of 
the material body, only a natural adaptation to natural 



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laws, recognizing a spiritual blending to lead on to a 
higher sphere and a more perfect life. 

It is this blending without fear that has brought so 
much to light and life, for now we are becoming an em- 
bodiment in perfect unison with the God-like principle 
of universal love. 

We embody the electric and magnetic force, and make 
the selections as we wish to carry out a figure or plan of 
spirit design, to combine the element, to protect and 
cherish the arts, such as photography or spirit-form, 
brought to bear upon any given thing, or to impart a 
knowledge to earth-life of the power of spirit. We are 
testing all and every chemical particle of matter to blend 
it with our own, to establish the fact with our being. 
The medium Daguerre, was wrought upon for years by a 
power unknown to him, but which he felt he must carry 
out, and did at last succeed, to the astonishment of the 
world. So with Mozart in writing his own requiem; 
spirit control w T as firm with him, and even showed himself 
and spoke to him. So with Morse in the telegraph. All 
of these and thousands more have showed the mediumis- 
tic blending with spirit force, and a gradual uniting of the 
two worlds, until we are now speaking to each other as 
mutual friends, w r ho are interested in the same cause of 
investigation, foi the benefit of future generations, "when 
the lion and lamb shall lie down together in harmony." 

Thus we see the wonderful revelations of the hidden 
springs of life, bringing heaven and earth to a mutual re- 
cognition of the conditions of each; an uplifting of the one 
and a sustaining of the other, by well balanced laws of 
positive and negative forces. 

We find everything to be natural here, and earth cannot 
picture a more natural scene, yet cannot compare with its 
glory. Often there is concentrated force of our spiritual 
band, drawing a halo of light from your earth-plane to our 
sphere, that we may be enabled to connect a link of com- 
munication, in order to give a full knowledge of our sur- 
roundings as we know the anxiety of you earth friends, to 
gain the truth of our locality. 

We find it hard to illustrate to the minds of mortals, 
the true condition of our home, as we understand, see and 
realize it. But in order to define it, we will say that we 
are not confined or limited to place the same as mortals, 
yet, we are governed by law r s regulating our acts. 

We cannot pass a sphere surrounding us until we acquire 
the electric chain, which will unite and carry us by its at- 
traction through it; yet, those laws are not arbitrary, be- 
cause being understood, they are recognized as the true 
condition by and through, which all things must move. 



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The magnetic chain is a connecting link, binding all con- 
ditions so that we can connect with every sphere, and yet 
not leave our own. 

Thus the spirits of higher spheres can and do communi- 
cate through every sphere and to the earth -plane; bat as 
you on the earth-plane sometimes call it, by proxy. 
Often times communications are sent to earth by spirits 
from the higher life to their loved ones on earth, and re- 
ceive in return, messages from them, without coming in 
contact with earth's atmosphere, its density at the time 
repelling them ; therefore necessitating the telegraphic sys- 
tem to be used with us. 



SECTION FOUKTH. 

Our life is an unfolding germ, which will eventually bloom 
in the highest heaven. 

The homes of our new life are just what the spirits' high- 
est conception had formed in earth-life. No light is dark- 
ened in spirit-life, no soul lost, but like a beautiful rose, 
every leaf of the divine nature will unfold in all its beauty, 
giving fragrance and sweetness to the surrounding sphere. 

According to a law of divine love, we cannot be happy 
in knowing that life is eternal, without making every effort 
to awaken mortals to the truth of life beyond the earthly; 
heaven is a planet or place with spheres or belts, which 
are of themselves a universe to the inhabitants, each sphere 
being perfectly adapted to the wants of those inhabiting it. 

Societies are varied according to their requirements. 
All arts and sciences are investigated and taught in the 
higher realms. EeligiOn has its devotees in the lower 
spheres, who worship at its shrine, until the spiritual un- 
foldment from the higher, prepare them to enter upon 
higher planes. 

The first and second spheres resemble earth in its mate- 
rial properties and surroundings. 

The first is so nearly allied by the interchange of mag- 
netic and electric forces, passing from animal, vegetable 
and mineral life, giving the same sensations, so that the 
spirit on entering this, sphere, often mistakes it for his 
earthly home, and vibrates between it and the earth. 

Those spirits that are material, remain in the first sphere, 
and coming in contact with earth -matter, often clothe 
themselves in its magnetic condition, so as to be recog- 
nized by their friends — the element of earth being but lit- 
tle coarser than those of the first sphere. 



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The spirits of higher spheres passing through the lower 
in returning to earth, cause an interchange, producing a 
gradual progression from earth to the highest. 

As soon as a spirit is sufficiently spiritualized or har- 
monized to pass into another sphere to become an inhabi- 
tant, a band of angels is sent to escort it. 

Spirits often visit spheres beyond them, guided by attend- 
ing angels, from those spheres, so that that they can behold 
the glories of soul-land and the angelic hosts, who are radi- 
ant and beautiful, thus awakening them to a consciousness 
of glory not conceived before. Attendants wait upon them, 
giving to their wondering gaze the soul picture of glories 
in the higher life. Earth's children sometimes get glimp- 
ses of the celestial spheres, and retain the knowledge 
gained to give it to earth. So with those spirits, they are 
tilled with a glorious light, giving them an impetus to rrse 
to higher conditions. 

The archway of heaven, as it is called, is the home of 
the angels, where they congregate in intercourse with 
each other in joyous festivities of pleasure and instruction 

You ask, do you have homes, families, societies, cities'? 
We answer, most certainly we do, and a glorious universe 
of love with those who are drawn to us. 

Homes are constructed for the education and blending 
of all that come within the sphere of our domestic ties. 
Societies associate for the advancement of knowledge. 
Cities are on a different plane from earth and on a grander 
scale of conception — for the soul is ever reaching out-in 
its spiritual capacity for knowledge of that which will 
benefit all who come within its sphere of attraction. We 
are not diversified by divisions of religious teachings — for 
all are of one mind, with a full knowledge of the great 
law of love . W T e are now speaking of those spheres which 
have fully awakened to the true soul condition of a uni- 
versal Father, whose love permeates all life. We find 
no isolated beings who are left to wander alone, but a 
general law that governs the whole, and all are welcome 
to come home where the vine and fig-tree yieldeth its fruit 
— no walls or barriers to the necessities of life. It is a 
spontaneous gift to all, therefore none lose the true con- 
ditioo of their soul's teaching. None are chilled by the 
cold look or averted face, because not understood — for 
every thought is comprehended and therefore drawn to 
those in sympathy with them. Let us now wander in the 
beautiful vales of our loved soul-land and gather the blos- 
soms which will speak a language to the soul that words 
cannot; for you must know this, that we are blest with 
everything in a spiritual sense that has blest the eye upon 
the physical plane, and then be gathered in the folds of 



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wonder at the wondrous variety never conceived of in this 
thy lower home. Scenery of the spheres is not so much 
unlike the earth, but its transcendant beauty can never 
be described or realized until seen with the eyes of the 
spirit-body. 

As I prepare this communication for the children of 
earth, I sit upon a mossy bank where a beautiful current 
of sparkling water is running over a pebbly bed, giving a 
low murmur which lulls me into a soft dreamy repose, 
carrying me back to earth, recalling old scenes which are 
at times still fresh in memory. Yes, we do live again in 
our earth past, and it is often while wandering in these 
beautiful vales that old scenes become vivid in soul-mind. 

I see before me grottoes where the poet or author re- 
clines beneath gorgeous foliage of shady trees — where 
cool murmuring streams and grassy lawns are decked with 
rarest flowers — birds warbling their glad notes of sweet- 
ness, soothing into poetic lore. 

The artist reclines in some silent nook touching the 
scenes which will some day be given to earth through the 
hand and brain of some mortal. Yes, the artist skill of 
the soul -land has hardly yet touched the spirit of mortals 
with its power; but the time is not far distant when you 
will receive new expression of our angel world. Your 
artists have caught the face and form of our loved ones; 
but soon our soul-land will be photographed in your 
earth, and a startling picture it will make, though real yet 
wonderful in its true condition. 

How little is comprehended by mortals of their power 
with us — all are making soul-pictures for their future life 
and every good thought or act is stamped upon the sphere 
home. So the evil acts andinharmonies of life are stamped 
in the sphere of inharmonious or undeveloped land. The 
vision of mortal, which is clothed in clairvoyant sight, sees 
the beautiful scenes of soul-land, but cannot fully compre- 
hend its wonderful beauty; but as the spirit unfolds in 
knowledge and sees everything beautifully arranged in or- 
der and harmony, perfectly adapted to their wants and 
happiness, every step they take in their progress will be 
a step nearer some ambition of the soul, giving them a joy 
and remembrance of past events in the progression to a 
still higher life. 

Oar starlit canopy is filled with lustrous mementoes of 
ancient records of past earth-life in the different stages of 
earth's history. A chronicle is kept in the heavens of all 
change and the periods of time in which those changes 
were made. Also a likeness of the forms of beings and 
language and modes of life. Do not think that we have 
no record of the past. Everything is preserved and with 



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the utmost precision. As yet man is not prepared to re- 
ceive a full knowledge of those facts, but little by little it 
will be brought before his mind and given to the world. 

Man to-day is reading from the pages of earth in sym- 
pathy with the spirit of the heavenly world, and is guided 
and directed to discover in the history of earth's laboratory 
the truth of what we say. 



SECTION FIFTH. 

I will now take you to our home in the Summer Land — 
the home where we spend our quiet and happy intervals 
of rest and repose, and gather sweet inspiration to renew 
our life-work with ecstacies of delight. 

Here are golden colored mystic rivers, which give forth 
enchanting sounds like cymbals or fine strung bells of 
smallest size, which so blend in tone and sweetness that 
they lull to repose and rest. Such a beautiful river flows 
near our retreat, with ambrosial flowers on its banks, with 
grottoes and statuary of the noble and grand of earth's 
history, here and there surrounded by sparkling fountains 
whose crystal waters give a musical cadence soft and 
sweet, where we love to retire to meditate and ask inspira- 
tion of higher power. 

Often the inhabitants of other planets visit our loved 
home and wander amidst its beautiful scenery, gathering 
mementoes to carry to their loved sphere where they are 
kept as tokens of remembrance. 

We often revisit and hold heavenly converse on the 
wonderful soul realm of eternal life. 

The physical cares or fatigues of v^otiHife are not ours. 
We drop those with our garments at the gateway of earth, 
before entering the portals of our heavenly home, and 
take upon us our vestal garments of shining and purified 
texture which we change as easily as the rainbow its hues, 
adapting ourselves to the conditions of change through 
different spheres. 

Imagine, if you can, some lovely spot of earth where 
the undulating scenery of mountains and valleys whose 
picturesque beauty carries the soul out into some fairy 
land, whose towering mountains covered with rich verdure 
and lofty trees, whose leafy branches breathe fragrance 
and coolness to the soul, while the valleys gently sloping 
down to the crystal waters of a beautiful river, whose 
branches are spreading like veins through the surrround- 
ing country, with lakes dotted here and there, while a 
broad expanse of waters like the ocean sparkles and rip- 



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pies in the distance. The hazy sunshine gives a halo to 
the scene, the soft notes of sweet singing birds and the 
little fairy insect world are lending a harmonical chord to 
lull with the singing waters a weary-worn spirit to rest. 
Such then may you imagine, but still a much brighter 
picture than this of our dear summer-land. 

We have a variety of scenery so beautiful that it has 
never entered into the mind of mortal to conceive of the 
glories that await the pilgrim stranger to this fairy land. 

My home, or rather our home — for my dear family are 
encircled within its charms, and many who are in unison 
with our love of life — meet with us in a loving harmony. 
Our lovely home nestles in the bosom of a valley whose 
lands slope gently down to a beautiful lake, where the sun- 
set falls like gold upon its mirrolred surface, reflecting the 
gorgeous scenery. We chose this spot as memento of 
our earth-home and for a resting place after long excur- 
sions to other planes or spheres. We also have homes in 
every sphere when we have become an inhabitant in our 
progress to this. 

We find so many things like earth in the floral kingdom 
and among the feathered songsters, that we never lose the 
individuality of earth; but there are many beautiful flowers 
that bloom with us that do not bloom on earth, such as 
the music flower, which makes the sweetest music chiming 
with the cymbal waters, thrilling the soul with joy. (Cym- 
bal is the name given to certain bodies of water which 
give a sweet sound like tinkling bells, yet not distinct and 
apart, but sweetly blending in symphony.) 

As you near our beautiful home from the silvery flowing 
river, you see grottoes and cascades and fountains. Our 
grottoes are very beautiful when covered with those sing- 
ing flowers, whose fragrance greets the stranger with a 
wonderful rapture, similar to the fragrance that fills the 
atmosphere when roses are in bloom in your earth. 

We do not live in houses like those of earth, but have 
glorious sheeny apartments, which screen from the out- 
ward observer and yield a sweet protection in which our 
souls revel and rest. 

Outward on a beautiful mountain we behold the retreat 
of those who are mingling soul with the scenery, and 
gradually does it blend with those inspirational beings 
where everything tends to elevate from this beautiful scene. 
Here live poets in their beautiful visions of higher life, 
artists, sculptors, inventors, who have laboratories or 
schools of design whereby to perfect their glorious ideas 
or conceptions. Here they can study thoughts from the 
earth-plane thousands of years before man has any 
knowledge or communication. This knowledge will yet 



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be handed down to earth, before your scientist will gather 
it from the laboratory of earth, through the investigations 
of geological research, yet they will compare perfectly 
when brought together. 

We will not digress, but return to our description of our 
beautiful home. You ask how do we live. We answer, 
by being embalmed with all and everything that is beau- 
tiful and in harmony to our taste or desire. Comprehend- 
ing the beautiful we attract the beautiful to us. Nothing 
is allowed by the ruling innate law, to mar an inspiration 
in the heavenly spheres. We yield to the impulses that 
surround us, as an infant to its mother for sustenance. 
Thus we retire to our grottoes, where all things minister to 
those beautiful visions of souls inspiration. There we are 
lulled and charmed by the music of the flowers and 
birds, and the hum of insect life, while the perfume of 
flowers impregnates our being with sweetness. Thus our 
soul is rested and uplifted, and like the flowers, gather in 
the nectar of God's glories, which make us grander and 
more noble in doing the great good for those who need 
our strength, and who do not have such beautiful homes. 
The desires of the heart furnish the homes of spirit-life. 
Those who do not love the beautiful are not given beauti- 
ful homes, until they have grown into a condition to appre- 
ciate them. 

Now we have told you of flowers and birds, and you 
naturally ask, have we any other scenes or conditions like 
earth. Yes friends, all the animal creation are here in 
their form and sphere, and many more beautiful than ever 
seen upon your earth, being adapted to our sphere alone. 
Why should we not? Have we not the forest, the moun- 
tain and meadow, lawns, lakes, rivers, all and everything 
like earth, and much that you will understand that earth 
has not, because of her density. 

Yet, she will bring forth and develope many new beings 
as she continues to rise out of her density to higher spirit- 
ual altitude — for she is rising higher and is becoming more 
spiritual in all her conditions. Everything upon her 
plane is being more spiritualized, and therefore she will 
develope more spiritual elements. 

My friend, you ask about our sun. We will tell you 
that the sun does not shine the same to us as with you, but 
emits a glorious halo that envelopes all our scenery with 
an auroral light of warmth, which is more genial, because 
the rays are not so strong and forcible, and our scen- 
ery is not so marked; but we have changes which are 
beautiful, giving us a variety of seasons, which are marked 
by departure and return of numerous spirits, who are ex- 
ploring the different regions of the summer-land. 



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Our art galleries are truly wonderful, and as you pass 
from sphere to sphere, you behold a great change in the 
artistic taste and style of the different ages. Our libra- 
ries also are wonderful with the literary talent displayed, 
which had no recognition on earth. Arts and scienes are 
developed here by those whose talent was not developed 
or dreamed of upon earth. Here is the classical scholar, 
the artisan, the poet, the explorer, every one perfectly re- 
presented with a home, a place where he can rest and 
enjoy the grandest visions of his soul theme. 

Our choristers are forming a sphere of musical instru- 
ments, which will give forth sounds that will reverberate 
throughout the arches of heaven, and through the corri- 
dors of earth, giving a system of sounds not known on 
earth, but which will be recognized as from the spheres. 
From the scintilated light and warmth of atmospheric 
change which will come over your concentrated circles, 
formed by intelligent mediums who have been developed 
through the different phases, until connected with the spir- 
itual element of our sphere, we will form a band to shout 
forth those strains of heavenly sound which will envelope 
the element of your sphere, and give a tribute to the gal- 
laxy of hosts which will attend both mortal and spiritual. 
These great gatherings which are being formed on earth, 
are only a counterpart of our heavenly associations, and 
are calculated to form a nucleus, whereby we can attach 
force to communicate it with earth. They do not under- 
stand that they conceived the idea from above, where 
angels long ago organized the same conditions, in order 
to promote the universal blending of all the power of 
earth. Thus we work by magnetic influences until all 
is symbolized on earth as it is in heaven. 

In our blessed abode, are homes for children where they 
are nourished, protected and educated in all the depart- 
ments of life, having natural guardians or chosen ones, 
who are attracted by their love of children to rear them to 
an individuality of self-sustaining power, oftentimes being- 
brought to earth to be sustained by the magnetism of the 
mother, or some member of the family. An infant is always 
held within its mother's magnetic arms, until it can be 
sustained without it. 

Here are buildings of oblong shape, with central towers 
that rise to immense height, surrounded by smaller towers, 
these again by balustrades; buildings grand as the soul 
can conceive of, in which there is gathered everything that 
is necessary for information and instruction, and for the 
happiness of children. 

The beautiful play-ground surrounding, is a wonder of 
marvellous beauty, with its grottoes, its lawns and flowers, 
its miniature lakes and islands, all fresh and beautiful, with 



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pebbly shores, and shelly banks, and sandy bottom like 
glistening snow, where rainbow-colored fishes glide in 
the crystal waters, giving full play to the imaginative soul 
of children. Here you will find groups of children nestled 
in some sylvan retreat on moss-clad mounds, surrounded 
by towering trees, whose wavering branches invite the 
pure atmosphere from flower-clad vales within its shady 
nook, where are interlaced beautiful foliage and flowers, 
whose perfume charms the soul with joy. Bands of children 
are gathered by their teachers and guides, who hold joy- 
ous associations, often visiting other regions to luxuriate 
in the beauty of some sylvan shade, where tiny barks, like 
beautiful sea-shells, are darting over the sparkling waters, 
filled with life and joy, decked with beautiful flowers in 
varied hue, sparkling and dancing like fairy spirits upon 
some emerald lawn, where the gold and silvery sheen en- 
velopes them in its glorious halo. On our silvery waters 
float beautiful homes or palaces of pleasure, where the ar- 
tist, the scholar and poet can gather sweet themes from 
their soul-thoughts, blending them with the beautiful of 
this heavenly land, without the trials or sorrows of pain 
or hunger from physical needs. 

One spot in our sphere is held as a great retreat by ex- 
plorers and visitors. It is called the cave of song, from 
the flute-like notes that reverberate through its subter- 
ranean archways. Sometimes, solemn and pathetic, at 
others, joyous and enchanting in its symphony. At times, 
you feel that it is enchanted ground, by the musical voices 
that come from its, at other times, silent chambers, whose 
gorgeous beauty is unrivalled by outward life. 

Here are wonderful domes hung with jewels of stalactites, 
which flash and quiver in the reflected light through in- 
terstices, reflecting on the water beneath in cascades and 
water falls, giving it a grand and romanfic picture. Here 
you can wander through wondrous apartments, giving an 
opportunity for study. Here are archways with fluted 
pillars of alabaster, which tower to an immense height, 
leading to domes and galleries, where statuary of the most 
wonderful conception of every living thing, is embodied 
and at rest in its appropriate place, true to the material of 
outward life. Gems of great brilliancy flash in their gor- 
geousness, giving a life and warmth to this enchanting 
cave of summer-land. 

When you wander through grand old castles that are 
here, whose consecrated domes have towered above for so 
many ages of your life, then will you wonder at the gor- 
geous grandeur of those tessellated and crystal floors, whose 
domes and arches are surrounded with the wonderful in 
art and science; where are living pictures of past great- 
ness, in form and expression of the notable of all time and 



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spheres; living, sheeny faces, whose life-like appearance 
thrills the soul with wonder and admiration. 

When we pass from sphere to sphere, we float at. will to 
every conceivable place, and yet we have corridors of beau- 
teous surroundings which wind through the star-lit canopy, 
where we may rest and view the glorious scenery below. 

As we pass to Vesta, wonders on wonders meet our 
view. Here we find beautiful grottoes — lovely little 
nooks — with every luxury that the soul can conceive of, 
to allay its desire. Beautiful bright spirits who attend, 
and as we approach, sing and chant their melodious songs, 
which thrill us with delight. They are a beautiful race — 
so small, so perfect in their organizations — that they are 
wonderful in their magnetic life — so perfect, happy and 
joyous in their natures. None have ever been seen upon 
earth. Vesta is a beautiful planet which shines in its 
orbit or soul-lit canopy with great beauty, and its inhabi- 
tants partake of its genial life . There are a few of the 
inhabitants who come to attend us to their home, where 
we may enjoy for a while the beauties of their glorious life. 

Bat we will not attempt now to describe its glories, as 
we are only to give you a knowledge of our earth's spirit- 
ual habitation. 

We have now given you a feeble picture of our heavenly 
home. My dear son has also spoken of the same, but in 
a different style. We have endeavored to make it as clear 
as possible to the mind of mortals. 

All who have been a long time in spirit-life, become so 
enlightened with its associations, that they cannot fully 
find language to express the condition of heaven in the 
language of mortals. We wish to write so that you may 
comprehend, and yet to clothe it in our spiritual language. 
The language of earth is gradually changing as the soul is 
cultivated to express itself in all its fullness and beauty, 
without restraint. Whenever the soul-thought has been re- 
strained in language, it becomes harsh and grating to the 
ears, as something unstrung or out of place; but when the 
spirit is rapt in the heavenly afflatus, and is held by the 
angels, it then gives forth the harmonious rythm of the 
summer-land. We find that the language of the higher 
sphere is blending with that of earth, and the recognition 
of its sweetness and adaption links us as one in soul-thought. 

We are now to leave the descriptive part of our home 
in spirit-land, but will endeavor to awaken a thought of 
future work for mortals. We have given a description of 
these scenes to give you a comprehension of our sphere 
and its conditions, that you may be prepared to enter upon 
your new field of work with an earnest desire and a truth- 
ful research into all life, both physical and spiritual. We 
are organizing for the fulfillment of the promise, made 



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when my beloved son wrote or dictated his experience. 
And now dear friend of earth, we will add that we shall 
be with you in all of your undertakings until the end, and 
as you have been faithful to us we shall be true to you. 

We have given in one combined effort, a true statement 
of our heavenly home as we find it, and rejoice to know that 
it meets with a kind recognition. 

In giving this testimony to the world, many may be led 
to disbelieve my statements, as coming from the spirit- 
land, but many witnesses will bring their tribute to the 
truth of what we say. 

As you are climbing up the golden stairway, the knowl- 
edge of life into the spiritual realm of light fail not to 
leave your land marks, by noting the change of ascension. 
This being your first great step, we hail you as a brother 
in the grand cause of future knowledge. Much will be 
given to you that you do not now conceive. Your first 
acceptance of the grand truths were so truthfully recorded, 
that you will reap a rich reward. We have now faithfully 
portrayed our heavenly home, but tongue can never ex- 
press, or mind conceive of the glories which surround the 
different spheres or belts of atmospherical light, and the 
millions of happy spirits who inhabit them; therefor I will 
not further attempt, as I have already endeavored to make 
plain to your mind the true condition, and to clear the 
doubt of an uncertain world or home for the inhabitants 
of spirit-life. 

We are workers on different planes of intelligence and 
are bringing this fact of spirit comm anion and individual 
spirit-life to the knowledge of earth's children. Therefore 
we ask you to work faithfully in the good cause of pro- 
gression out of the thralldom of supestitious fear of an ar- 
bitrary God and a demoniacal Devil. Hell and heaven 
are mythical terms given by designing minds on your 
earth, by which to frighten into subjection the human 
soul and make it subject to their control, and in so doing 
have resorted to superstitious deities in order to intimi- 
date with superhuman power. But that is fast fading 
away, for the veil is rent, the light is streaming through, 
and soon the opening day will appear, removing all dark- 
ness and doubt from the minds of the people. As heaven 
and earth are shaking hands through the portals by friends 
from both spheres, the devil of the past will flee and a 
new revelation will dawn upon the world, a new covenant 
be made, the old will pass away, and the new birth of a 
renewed life shall be given to all the world, to last forever 
and forever. We now bless you and give you the light of 
our new gospel of glad tidings of great joy, which shall be 
to all people forever and ever. 

MAEY WASHINGTON. 



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